Hey, Chufoglu, can you please confirm if my ALIBABA playbacks ok? It's from 7 days ago. I know it's only a volunteer position, but it would be appreciated faster confirmations, mainly in problematic games like this one. Thanks!

It's very quiet. Would be fine to add a new post to every game ("T11 - ALIBABA", etc...) like most tournaments have. Maybe it would motivate discussions...

Phil Lamat wrote:21400 for me also ; Cicca, 3 questions :
1- is your rom ok ? (check with -verifyroms alibaba)
2- what OS are you using ?
3- does the inp playback for you ?

1 - rom is ok
2 - XP SP3 (nLited)
3 - It doesn't .... so far, I've just an inp playing back fine until the end, recorded with w141 a week ago, but the game played yesterday as a test, with the same .exe version, doesn't.....
I'm getting just a little bit fed up.....

I understand your frustration. That's strange, because game playbacks ok for all other players using "-noafs -fs 0".
And I don't think it's due to the OS.
Did you remove hiscore.dat and/or history.dat (if you have) ?

Phil Lamat wrote:I understand your frustration. That's strange, because game playbacks ok for all other players using "-noafs -fs 0".
And I don't think it's due to the OS.
Did you remove hiscore.dat and/or history.dat (if you have) ?

Could they affect playbackability in any way...?! And also, "-noafs -fs 0" could be different from "-fs 0 -noafs" (as in my command line...?!?)

Question 1 : yes, I don't remember with what game I discover, but yes in some cases it can affect playback
Question 2 : I think the answer is no (order isn't important in the options I guess) but you should try the inversion, who knows ?

No way !!!
Commented history.dat and hiscore.dat lines in mame.ini, inverted -fs 0 -noafs in the command line, used the record.bat file to be sure .cfg file is renamed before recording and playing back .... still not working !!!
Recorded a "short" game (34k), as a test, and played back until the end.....a longer one (79k), desynch at the first life loss.... what the hell !!!